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November 6, 2026 For more than a decade, The Frontier has held powerful institutions accountable, exposed wrongdoing and told stories that might otherwise go unheard. Now we’re asking readers to help us continue that mission. Tweet Share Share Author Dylan Goforth [email protected] Reading Time 4 min Posted In fundraising Frontier executive editor Dylan Goforth, left, interviews Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols. ASHLYND BAECHT/The Frontier Earlier this year, The Frontier published an investigation into the deaths of people held in Tulsa’s city jail. Our reporter, Garrett Yalch, spent months digging through records, interviewing families and examining how people arrested for relatively minor offenses ended up dead in city custody. We found that seven people had died in the jail over three years. We uncovered records that the city kept from the public. And we obtained disturbing video showing a man who was taken to jail instead of a hospital, where he died within an hour.

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